At age 28, Greg Hardy should be lining up on Sunday afternoon for a professional football team. He was an All Pro player in 2013, and his performance on the field cannot be questioned. However, his behavior off the field is the problem. Hardy can’t stay out of trouble, whether it’s being arrested for domestic […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Samsung is recalling their defective Galaxy Note 7 phones. They’ve already announced one recall, but it looks as though the replacement phones are just as dangerous as the original versions. Samsung is recalling every Galaxy Note 7 phone it has produced. If you have a Galaxy […]

McDonald’s has tried valiantly to change its business around, to keep growth happening and to keep their place at the top of the fast food world, but it’s not happening quite as easily as it might have. Mickey D’s attempt at all-day breakfasts hasn’t sparked the way it was expected, and while they’re still changing […]

The political system in America, by and large, works pretty good. Sure, there are occasionally disagreements between various political factions, but most of the time things don’t go past the argument stage. There are occasional issues with Donald Trump’s more ardent supporters, but even those pale in comparison to what goes in in some other […]

When someone owns most of your company, it’s pretty hard to tell him no. Sumner Redstone is a huge player in the media world, thanks to his company National Amusements. National Amusements is a movie theater chain that also happens to own 80 percent of two massive media companies, CBS and Viacom. So, in effect, […]

Just when it looked like things were turning around for Yahoo, no such luck. It wasn’t that long ago that Marissa Mayer left Google and successfully orchestrated the sale of Yahoo to Verizon for $4.8 billion dollars. Well, that silver lining is now tarnished, because Yahoo is facing one of the biggest security problems of […]

Fall is my favorite season. The leaves change color, and food all takes on different properties. That doughnut? Now a pumpkin spice doughnut. That latte? Now it’s every white girl’s favorite drink, the pumpkin spice latte. Pumpkin spice everything is out there, ready for the taking, so enjoy it while it lasts. (Next is peppermint […]

People live in fear of clowns. Not me, but there’s just something about clowns that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable. A trio of Alabama kids used that fear of clowns to prey on the fears of some classmates and associates in the town of Flomaton, and they’ve landed not in a puddle of […]

The streets of Dhaka are running red with blood. We’re not talking little trickles of blood, either; we’re talking full-on blood flood filling the city, turning the capital of Bangladesh into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There have been lots of horrible flooding events, like a flood of toxic sludge and street-clogging floods of frogs, but a […]

When John Muir laid out the plans for Yosemite National Park in 1890, one of the things he’d included in the massive park was an area called Ackerson Meadows, which is a meadow and wetland area some 400 acres near the park’s Big Oak Flat entrance. For whatever reason, that never happened, while other parks […]

You have 10 days or so to save up $649 plus taxes or find a smuggler. That’s the going rate for the new iPhone 7, which will be hitting store shelves on September 16. (The $649 will get you the small 32GB edition of the iPhone.) If you want a new Apple Watch, that’ll be […]

College is a big business. No matter that half of all college degrees, my own included, are wasted. In fact, a lot of people would have a better life without wasting time and money on a degree, but for a lot of people, college is more about what it represents than the actual education. That […]

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone has been on sale since late August. So, a couple of weeks now, at best. However, as it turns out, there’s a little… well, a large problem with the phones. They have a nasty habit of exploding. Some 35 or so of the phones have exploded around the world, […]

I was never a Bill Nye fan. For whatever reason, I just never took to the show. My science TV show was, and always shall be, Beakman’s World, if only because a guy in a rat suit got to eat sugar glass. Plus they taught me, a movie nerd, how to make sugar glass. Still, […]

Sometimes it’s easy to forget about someone when they choose to retire from the world, but someone like Gene Wilder could never be forgotten. He made too big of an impression, with his high-strung nature, frizzy hair, and bugged-out eyes. His impression might last, but the world is now short one genius actor. Gene Wilder, […]

Since 2014, Craig Sager has been caught in the fight of his life. He’s been battling leukemia since 2014, and he’s had multiple stem-cell treatments and rounds of radiation, and he continues to struggle against the disease for all he’s worth. He’s been a very public face for most of his life, and now he’s engaged […]

Let’s do lunch. We need to have a lunch meeting. Everyone bring your lunch, we’re working late. Lunch is a big deal around the office, because for some people, it’s the only chance they get to leave the office. For other people, lunch is an invaluable resource for making professional connections. That’s where Lunchback comes […]

There’s just something about the waters around Puerto Princesa that lends itself to giant pearls. The port city on the Philippine island of Palawan is the place where the world’s largest pearl, a 14-pound hunk called the Pearl of Allah or Pearl of Lao, was discovered. Now, it turns out, a local man’s been sleeping […]

Worry not, bachelors. You’ve got a goldmine in your cabinet, assuming you go to prison. With changes in prison food availability, particularly less of it as part of cost-cutting measures around the country, there’s a new king on the prison trading market. Move over cigarettes, prisoners are now using ramen noodles as prison currency. That’s […]

It’s not a rare thing to hear the United States national anthem during the Olympics; you hear it at every sporting event ever, it seems. At the 2016 Rio Games, the US won 46 gold medals, so the Star Spangled Banner was played 46 times. Not too shabby, right? However, the anthem is a song […]

Well, that didn’t last long. In 2014, The Colbert Report went off the air so its star could go replace David Letterman on CBS. They promoted from within, as they are wont to do, by bringing Larry Wilmore to the big stage. Larry promptly fell flat on his face. Low ratings and poor social media […]

In November, eight states will be deciding on just how they’re going to treat marijuana. Some states are offering up the option of decriminalizing the drug (like California, giving it another shot), while others are considering legalizing it for medical purposes. However, the most powerful entity in the land continues to look down on legal […]

It’s time. For the next couple of weeks, the world is going to shut down and everyone’s going to huddle around televisions, radios, telephones, and computers to watch the best athletes in the world compete to see just who is the best. I know I’ll be watching, and hundreds of millions of other people will […]

America is a country of excess. We like big cars, big roads, and big food to go in our big bellies. After all, this is a country of fried cheese sandwiches washed out with 10 shots of espresso, so it’s not surprising that America’s fast casual chains are all tempted to pile on the calories […]

There are all kinds of crazy diseases out there, and that’s something that people are rightfully concerned with. There was swine flu, then feline flu, then all other kinds of flus. However, none of those have proven to be as dangerous to the general public as the zika virus, which is a horrible thing […]

Honestly, I don’t think I watched a lot of Sesame Street when I was a child. I remember some vague things, like Kermit wearing an overcoat and a hat with a press card, but other than that, I think I missed out on the Sesame Street train. Sadly, that means I missed out on a […]

Think of the biggest events of the 1980’s, and what do you think of? Maybe MTV. Maybe the NASA Challenger explosion. Or, perhaps, the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. It’s a huge deal. John Hinkley Jr. grabbed a revolver and fired into the crowd of people, nearly killing the President of the United States […]

Invasive species are a serious problem. Once an animal gets into an environment where it has no real predators, there’s no telling what will happen. Florida is overrun with pythons; they’re even fighting off local gators. If a gator can’t stand up to invasive species, what could a flightless bird do against predators? If that […]

The NBA All-Star Game is a huge deal for teams. It brings thousands of fans and millions of dollars to the communities that host it, and it makes sense that the NBA would want its showcase event be as accessible as possible to everyone. To that end, the NBA has been mindful of the laws […]

Donald Trump has somehow become the Republican nominee for President of the United States despite being pretty unpopular, both in his own party and in the general public. Trump hasn’t been afraid of anyone, and he’s not been worried about keeping anyone other than his rabid supporters happy. No matter what he says or does, […]